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Friday essay: Trump’s presidency is being compared to America’s Gilded Age - what was it, and what happened next?
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Friday essay: Trump’s presidency is being compared to America’s Gilded Age - what was it, and what happened next?
“Trump’s golden age looks an awful lot like a new Gilded Age,” wrote Politico this month, reflecting on the second inauguration of the United States’ president, prominently attended by tech billionaires. The day after that inauguration, historian Beverly Gage “couldn’t stop thinking about the Gilded Age” and its “rapid technological change as well as stark inequality, corporate graft and violent clashes between workers and bosses”. But what was the Gilded Age – and does the comparison hold up?
Is the USA in a 'Slow Civil War'? Insights from Trump Rallies
In these days of the 24-hour news cycle, one can never know in advance, but Donald J. Trump seems likely to be the Republican Party candidate for president of the United States in 2024. With Trump facing four indictments in American courts, the outcome is uncertain. Would the American people vote for an indicted person, or even for a felon? They might, and to understand the persistence of Trump’s loyal following, we need to get behind the headlines and assess the roots of Trump’s power.
Is America enduring a 'slow civil war'? Jeff Sharlet visits Trump rallies, a celebrity megachurch and the manosphere to find out
In these days of the 24-hour news cycle, one can never know in advance, but Donald J. Trump seems likely to be the Republican Party candidate for president of the United States in 2024. With Trump facing four indictments in American courts, the outcome is uncertain. Would the American people vote for an indicted person, or even for a felon? They might, and to understand the persistence of Trump’s loyal following, we need to get behind the headlines and assess the roots of Trump’s power.
Is America enduring a 'slow civil war'? Jeff Sharlet visits Trump rallies, a celebrity megachurch and the manosphere to find out
© 2024 Tolerance.ca ® Inc. All reproduction rights reserved. All information reproduced on the Web pages of www.tolerance.ca (including articles, images, photographs, and logos) is protected by intellectual property rights owned by Tolerance.ca ® Inc. or, in certain cases, by its author. Any reproduction of the information for use other than personal use is prohibited.
Is America enduring a 'slow civil war'? Jeff Sharlet visits Trump rallies, a celebrity megachurch and the manosphere to find out
In these days of the 24-hour news cycle, one can never know in advance, but Donald J. Trump seems likely to be the Republican Party candidate for president of the United States in 2024. With Trump facing four indictments in American courts, the outcome is uncertain. Would the American people vote for an indicted person, or even for a felon? They might, and to understand the persistence of Trump’s loyal following, we need to get behind the headlines and assess the roots of Trump’s power.
My worst three Newcastle United moments of 2023
An ideal time in the heart of the festive season to get a snapshot of views from Newcastle United fans on how they think things are going. So we sent out various questions to a small number of regular / irregular contributors to The Mag. Here we have Ian Tyrrell of Toon Army Baltimore: What would be a perfect NUFC Christmas present to unwrap? A fully fit squad. In 2023, what have been your three best Newcastle United moments? Watching young Lewis Miley score his first goal. Beating PSG 4-1 at home.
The unfulfilled American dream stalks Mike Davis’s dystopian Los Angeles in his masterful City of Quartz
In an occasional series, we look at books that have become cultural touchstones. The death of the radical historian Mike Davis, on October 25 in San Diego, brings back memories of Los Angeles, and of Davis’s landmark book on that city. When I first picked up City of Quartz (1990), I wondered at the title, which was left unexplained in the text. Davis later explained it to London Review of Books’ US editor, Adam Shatz. Quartz is This was the essence of the Los Angeles Davis had excavated.
The unfulfilled American dream stalks Mike Davis’s dystopian Los Angeles in his masterful City of Quartz
In an occasional series, we look at books that have become cultural touchstones. The death of the radical historian Mike Davis, on October 25 in San Diego, brings back memories of Los Angeles, and of Davis’s landmark book on that city. When I first picked up City of Quartz (1990), I wondered at the title, which was left unexplained in the text. Davis later explained it to London Review of Books’ US editor, Adam Shatz. Quartz is This was the essence of the Los Angeles Davis had excavated.
Ian Tyrrell reviews 'The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the world in the free market era' by Gary Gerstle
American presidential elections can be frustrating for outsiders. Non-Americans can’t vote, but humanity’s future may depend upon a few votes in a handful of gerrymandered states. I spent much of 2020 driving myself to distraction over the possibility that Donald Trump might be re-elected. I had no such anxiety in 2016: in my opinion, Hillary Clinton did not deserve to win.
An Ugly Preeminence | Ian Tyrrell
The critical and potentially fractious language of the Puritan jeremiad—in which seventeenth-century New England clergy denounced the social, moral, and religious failures of their communities in a series of lamentations reflecting or threatening a break of the settlers’ covenant with God, while offering the hope of a return to the true way of God through renunciation of sin—was intrinsic to Christian republicanism’s campaigning in the early republic.
American exceptionalism, from Stalin with love – Ian Tyrrell | Aeon Ideas
Roosevelt and Stalin share a moment at Yalta. Getty Images Every time a public figure uses the term ‘American exceptionalism’, ordinary Americans turn to my website. It’s number one for a quick answer to the question: ‘What is American exceptionalism?’ My latest benefactor was Hillary Clinton, who used the term in a speech on 31 August. My website hits spiked. Until about 2010, few Americans had heard the term. Since then, its use has expanded exponentially.
Natural world
The Library is delighted to announce the complete digitisation of its renowned "pattern" set of 681 folio-sized plates for 'The Birds of Australia' by John Gould.
Ian Tyrrell reviews 'Secularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America' by Timothy Verhoeven
In an address to the National Prayer Breakfast (8 February 2018), President Donald Trump called the United States a ‘nation of believers’. As evidence, he reminded his audience that the American currency includes the phrase ‘In God We Trust’ and that the Pledge of Allegiance is ‘under God’. Trump omitted that, in their present state, these godly references date only from the Cold War era of the 1950s.
A river runs through it
Review: River Dreams: The people and landscape of the Cooks River The Cooks River in Sydney’s southern suburbs lacks the grandeur of Sydney Harbour, the Hawkesbury or even the Georges. Historically, it doesn’t have the significance of the Nile or the Thames. In Australian history one hardly hears of it, unlike the Parramatta or the Murray, even though it features at the arrival of Europeans in Australia.
The Feminist History of Prohibition
Each December 5th, America celebrates the repeal of Prohibition, which banned the manufacture and sale of drinking alcohol in America from 1920 to 1933. It’s easy to think of the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment as a paradigmatic example of reactionary forces demanding moral obeisance. However, such a linear view of history may be all too narrow, as Ian Tyrell, writing in the Australasian Review of American Studies, reminds us.
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